Discusses about the authoritarian rule and abject poverty of the 'bottom billion' of humanity in Africa. This book argues at length on the issue of quality and visionary leadership as Africa's greatest deficit.

The central concern of this study is power and influence and how African countries can obtain and use them properly for the common good of the people. It aims to open new vistas to students and the reading public who are beginning to learn about state-building, democracy and development in countries other than their own.

Contributes to the debate on Democratisation, Governance and Development since the collapse of the Communist System and Africa's Lost Decades of the 1980s. This book deals with a variety of issues that could be categorised under the context of nationalism,

These series seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate on democratisation, governance and development since the collapse of the communist system and Africa's lost decades of the 1980s.

Here the People Rule

Each chapter of this book begins with an abstract and ends with recommendations. The book deals with a wide variety of issues that could be categorised under the context of nationalism, national integration, development plans, sense of direction, the role and purpose of the state.

Challenges of Administrative Political & Developmental Renewal in Africa

The central concern of this book is power and influence, a twin concept: how African countries can obtain power and use it properly for the common good of the people. The transfer of the concepts of power and influence from the plane of theory to that of social practice should render a service to those in search of greater social relevance in social change, as well as to those seeking an improved, more precise and intellectually more manageable and intelligible frame of reference for power and its usage. This publication is different, and the hope is that it will open new vistas to students,...